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100 1 Blaine, Gerald.
245 14 The Kennedy detail :|bJFK's secret service agents break
their silence /|cGerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin.
250 First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
264 1 New York :|bGallery Books,|c2010.
300 xvii, 427 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index.
505 0 When time stood still -- The men. On the detail ; The
President-elect detail ; The threats ; The advance ; The
risks ; The First Lady's detail -- The job. The summer of
'63 ; The reelection campaign ; Rising tensions ; Texas --
That day. The final hours ; Six seconds in Dallas ;
Breakdown ; The unimaginable ; Darkness falls ; No time
for tears ; Burial -- Our lives. The end of Camelot ; The
Johnson detail ; The pendulum falls ; The verdict ;
Confronting conspiracies ; Clint Hill : witness to history
; Clint Hill : don't call me hero.
520 The Secret Service are an elite team of men who share a
single mission: to protect the president of the United
States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed, and a
country would never be the same. Now, for the first time,
a member of JFK's Secret Service detail reveals the inside
story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led to
it and its heartrending aftermath. This book is a portrait
of dedication, courage, and loss. Drawing on the memories
of his fellow agents, the author captures the energetic,
crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his
car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little
warning. He describes the careful planning that went into
JFK's Texas swing, the worries and concerns that agents,
working long hours with little food or rest, had during
the trip. And he describes the intensely private first
lady making her first ever political appearance with her
husband, just months after losing a newborn baby. Here
are vivid scenes that could come only from inside the
Kennedy detail: JFK's last words to his tearful son when
he left Washington for the last time; how a sudden change
of weather led to the choice of the open air convertible
limousine that day; Mrs. Kennedy standing blood soaked
outside a Dallas hospital room; the sudden interruption of
six-year-old Caroline's long anticipated sleepover with a
friend at home; the exhausted team of agents immediately
reacting to the president's death with a shift to LBJ and
other key governmental figures; the agents' dismay at
Jackie's decision to walk openly from the White House to
St. Matthew's Cathedral at the state funeral. Most of all,
this is a look into the lives of men who devoted their
entire beings to protecting the presidential family: the
stress of the secrecy they kept, the emotional bonds that
developed, the terrible impact on agents' psyches and
families, and their astonishment at the country's
obsession with far fetched conspiracy theories and finger
pointing. This book is a portrait of camaraderie and
heartbreak, a true story of heroism in its most complex
and human form; the true story of the assassination of JFK,
told by Secret Service agents who were there and who have
lived with the guilt and grief from that day.
600 10 Kennedy, John F.|q(John Fitzgerald),|d1917-1963
|xAssassination.
610 10 United States.|bSecret Service|xOfficials and employees
|vBiography.
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
700 1 McCubbin, Lisa.
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